Economics
You can make notes on drivers and collect the most relevant ones by saving them to your profile.
- Attitudes towards domestic poverty
- Constrained public spending
- Consumer confidence
- Corporate giving
- Corporate responsibility
- Economic downturn
- Efficiency and value for money
- Ethical living and consumerism
- Expectations of evidence
- Globalisation of markets
- Green taxation
- Housing market
- Immigration
- Individual giving
- Inequality between local areas
- Inflation
- Interest rates
- Labour market
- Level and sources of VCS income
- Loan finance
- Online Revenue
- Personal debt
- Polarisation of the VCS
- Poverty and inequality
- Procurement practice
- Public service delivery
- Social enterprise
- Stock market performance
- Commodification of membership
- The free economy
Feeling overwhelmed?
As you can see, there are many drivers that are shaping the future of voluntary and community organisations. The good news is that you can put most of them to one side in your own strategic planning.
Read our introduction to strategic analysis and find out how to sort and prioritise drivers. The guide takes you through the five stages of strategic analysis and there are templates to download to help you organise your thoughts.


